Saturday, December 13

It's a Food Blogga Christmas Book Giveaway!

'Tis the season for giving. Two lucky Food Blogga readers will receive a copy of Silver Bells, a holiday anthology written by authors Fern Michaels, JoAnn Ross, Mary Burton, and Judy Duarte. To celebrate the book, Mary Burton has included her recipe for Silver Bells Teacakes, soft, sweet, lemony cookies studded with dried cherries and topped with a cream cheese icing.

Here's what you have to do to win:

Just tell me what your favorite Christmas cookie is by the end of the day Monday, December 15, 2008. That's it.

Two winners will be randomly selected and announced in a future post that week, so please check back. Don't have a blog? Just leave an active email address where you can be reached. Also, winners will need to provide their real names and mailing addresses.

Speaking of Christmas cookies, you have through December 21st to submit yours to Eat Christmas Cookies, Season 2. Click on the logo for details. And click here to view the deliciously festive cookies that have been submitted so far.

Wow this is really tough... I LOVE to nibble at them all! But I might have to agree with some that have already posted... a good chocolate chip cookies can never be wrong :-) So I will go with that as my favorite... at least for today!

My favourite Christmas Cookie? I think that it would have to be the tins of thin ginger biscuits that you can get from Ikea!! (I could quite happily eat the whole tin in one sitting, but somehow manage to restrain myself!!)

In my kitchen though, I have a bag of peffernussse from Belgium that I haven't tried yet - so those may win the deal this year!!

As much as I love my ginger snaps, they're not my traditional holiday cookie. That would be the Royal Dansk pretzel shaped butter cookie. My grandmother would have a tin every Christmas when my family would visit, and the pretzels were the best of the set. It's almost a tradition now...

I don't know what they are called, but they are sold in the stores. They are bright pink and green and have a minty taste to them. My mom use to buy them every year. They are in the shape of leaves! HEAVENLY!

Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Gingerbread...from "How to Eat," I think, but maybe "How to Be a Domestic Goddess." I'm sure I fiddle with it each year, but it's basically her recipe...thick, dense, dark from molasses but with enough chocolate to satisfy the addiction.

Since I can't get anything but "Anonymous" to post on Susan's site, I thought I'd better ID myself, since how else will she notify me that I'm a winner (tee-hee) with my Nigella Chocolate Gingerbread? Jean here, at expat39520@hotmail.com

My favorite is the Contessa cookie made by the Bahlsen Co in Germany, but I have made it at home with moderate sucess---a soft, subtly spiced gingerbread/lebkucken, with a thin icing of vanilla and coated with chocolate on the bottoms, or Nick Malgieri's Leckerli.

My favorite Christmas cookies probably are my Grandma's Bourbon Balls. She's made them every year since I was born, and each year they taste a little different since she does them from memory. But nothing tastes like Christmas like her Bourbon Balls :)